diff --git a/.ci/jsoref-spellchecker/whitelist.words b/.ci/jsoref-spellchecker/whitelist.words
index 3d29b7febbe..6784b81379d 100644
--- a/.ci/jsoref-spellchecker/whitelist.words
+++ b/.ci/jsoref-spellchecker/whitelist.words
@@ -478,6 +478,7 @@ Foreach
 Fpuppycrawl
 fq
 freedomsponsors
+freemarker
 Fregexp
 Fresources
 Frob
diff --git a/.ci/releasenotes-gen-xdoc-push.sh b/.ci/releasenotes-gen-xdoc-push.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..04090891eb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.ci/releasenotes-gen-xdoc-push.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+source ./.ci/util.sh
+
+checkForVariable() {
+  VAR_NAME=$1
+  if [ -v "${!VAR_NAME}" ]; then
+    echo "Error: Define $1 environment variable"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+}
+
+checkForVariable "READ_ONLY_TOKEN"
+
+checkout_from https://github.com/checkstyle/contribution
+
+cd .ci-temp/contribution/releasenotes-builder
+mvn -e --no-transfer-progress clean compile package
+cd ../../../
+
+if [ -d .ci-temp/checkstyle ]; then
+  cd .ci-temp/checkstyle/
+  git reset --hard origin/master
+  git pull origin master
+  git fetch --tags
+  cd ../../
+else
+  cd .ci-temp/
+  git clone https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle
+  cd ../
+fi
+
+CS_RELEASE_VERSION="$(getCheckstylePomVersion)"
+echo CS_RELEASE_VERSION="$CS_RELEASE_VERSION"
+
+cd .ci-temp/checkstyle
+LATEST_RELEASE_TAG=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/checkstyle/checkstyle/releases/latest \
+                       | jq ".tag_name")
+echo LATEST_RELEASE_TAG="$LATEST_RELEASE_TAG"
+
+cd ../
+
+BUILDER_RESOURCE_DIR="contribution/releasenotes-builder/src/main/resources/com/github/checkstyle"
+
+java -jar contribution/releasenotes-builder/target/releasenotes-builder-1.0-all.jar \
+     -localRepoPath checkstyle \
+     -remoteRepoPath checkstyle/checkstyle \
+     -startRef "$LATEST_RELEASE_TAG" \
+     -releaseNumber "$CS_RELEASE_VERSION" \
+     -githubAuthToken "$READ_ONLY_TOKEN" \
+     -generateXdoc \
+     -xdocTemplate $BUILDER_RESOURCE_DIR/templates/xdoc_freemarker.template \
+     -publishXdoc -publishXdocWithPush
+
+echo "releasenotes.xml after commit:"
+head "checkstyle/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml" -n 100